1 Corinthians 14:1-15:58
We are about to be caught up in grocery shopping for next week’s turkey dinner and gift shopping for next month’s giving. But whether or not you have thought about it, right on the heels of all that is a new year, with new possibilities and new goals.
Speaking of goals, here are the 6 words that our reading for today began with-
Jesus even said love is the highest command in Mark 12…
Jesus said, “The first in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.’ And here is the second: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment that ranks with these.” (Message)
We read that and we are say, “Yes, that’s a good and simple command for us to follow. I got this!”
And we should, but there is one line in these verses that we really don’t pay that much attention to…
‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’
If you are like me, and I am sure most of you are, sometimes I don’t love myself very well. I find myself almost daily saying ugly things to myself when I look in the mirror or when I mess up big time. And I don’t think people are really going to want me to love them the way that I at times love myself.
So I want to challenge us today, to speak the words of encouragement to ourselves that we would to a close friend when they mess up or when they look in the mirror.
It will be a little difficult for us, but if we can’t properly love ourselves, we really can’t properly love others.
And THAT is our highest goal!
Will you join me today? Let’s allow God to do a work IN us so He can do a work THROUGH us!
Tina
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